Word: stettiniuses
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...Washington's airport Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, arriving, and Under Secretary Joseph C. Grew, welcoming him, beamed and embraced each other in almost Latin style. They felt they could congratulate themselves on the outcome of the Mexico Conference on War & Peace...
...When the Conference made its last formal bows and speeches, Stettinius, bubbling with confidence, had challenged reporters to find any serious failure in his first public international conference...
...Both Stettinius and Nelson Rockefeller, with Mexico's Ezequiel Padilla and a small army of experts like Adolf Berle, Avra Warren, Oscar Cox, Leo Pasvolsky and Senator Warren Austin, won Latin praise...
Into the breach stepped Vermont's Republican Senator Warren R. Austin. While Stettinius & Co. were gasping for air, smart Warren Austin announced that he could not read the Spanish text of the resolution, made delay a point of Latin courtesy. This stratagem gave him and Texas' Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, time to work out a compromise...
...Union. A drive by Mexico to rejuvenate the languishing Pan American Union confronted Ed Stettinius and his No. 1 political assistant, Nelson Rockefeller, with a challenge to their Hemisphere leadership. They met it skillfully, yielded on most points without losing too much face or endangering the U.S. position on more vital issues. Important changes...